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App notifications are UI popups that appear outside of your app's window, delivering timely information or actions to the user. Notifications can be purely informational, can launch your app when clicked, or can trigger a background action without bringing your app to the foreground. The Windows App SDK provides APIs for sending and managing app notifications, and for responding to user interaction with notifications.
This section of the documentation covers local app notifications, which are created and displayed from within your app. To send notifications from a cloud service, see Push notifications overview.
App notifications quickstart
For a walkthrough of creating notification UI, sending a notification, and handling foreground and background activation in a WinUI app, see Quickstart: App notifications.
Use app notifications with other frameworks
These articles show how to send an app notification and handle activation for other supported frameworks. For notification content, features, and design guidance, see the sections below. For a full list of supported frameworks, see Use app notifications with other frameworks.
UX and content guidance
These articles cover how to design your notifications and define their content, including text, images, buttons, inputs, and other UI elements.
- App notification UX guidance
- App notification content
- App notification content schema
- Schedule an app notification
Additional app notifications features
These articles cover additional capabilities you can add to your app notifications, such as progress bars, custom audio, and grouping.
- Remove app notifications
- Custom audio on app notifications
- App notification progress bar and data binding
- App notification with pending update
- Custom timestamps on app notifications
- App notification collections
- App notification headers
- Notification listener: Access all notifications
Limitations
The app notifications support in the Windows App SDK currently has these limitations:
- Apps running with administrator privileges (elevated) cannot send or receive app notifications.
See also
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